Teaching the skills towards becoming an Educated and Responsible Outdoor Recreationalist and learning the foundational skills of climbing to set one up for the adventures to come.

Skills taught: 

• Trip Planning: Starting from how to read a guidebook and Mountain Project, to planning out where your adventures will take you. 
• Anchor Building: How to build a variety of anchors and assess security and redundancy
• Rappelling and Lowering: ethics around both techniques, skills to tackle both, all while understanding how to make the decision of which technique is best suited for which situation one may find themselves in.
• Lead Climbing: Learn the foundational skills to understand what it takes to set up a climb. 

Curriculum:

Day 1: Forming Meaningful Belaytionships 

• Route finding, reading a guide book, planning out your trip

• Learn how to build and asses a variety of Anchors 
• Develop the skills, while understanding the ethics and difference of Lowering and Rappelling off a route (how to clean a route)
• Put all of your new skills to work! Repetition is key when learning new tools!

Day 2: Becoming a Leader 

• Tying all of the skills from the previous two weekends together
• Allowing space to practice skills and solidify confidence in education
• Opportunities to Mock Lead while diving deeper into the ‘How-To’s of setting up routes to facilitate your own day out to climb

What’s included:

• 2 guided days out with AMGA certified guide (Sat & Sun each weekend)
• 2 nights of camping accommodations (Fri & Sat each weekend)
• Group and personal climbing gear
• Climbing Permits

**Prerequisite: Top rope and lead belay, General movement on rock, climbing 5.8 comfortably on Top Rope, Ability to carry 30 lb pack for over a mile, Stoke to learn skills to become self-sufficient in the sport of climbing